Lt. Brett Gockstetter explains what happened at the scene of the March 12 Ohio Turnpike crash that resulted in three fatalities.

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Hannah Camille Bealer
Staff writer

The Ohio Highway Patrol's preliminary investigation into this month's Ohio Turnpike pileup is expected to be finalized by the end of the week and in the hands of a Sandusky County prosecutor by early next week.

Several separate crashes within the 50-vehicle pileup March 12 claimed the lives of three people. Driver fault has been established in all three fatalities, said Lt. Brett Gockstetter of the Milan Post, and two out of three fatalities can be attributed to commercial vehicles.

Around 1:46 p.m., near milepost 113, about nine commercial vehicles and a passenger car collided. Three ...